Check out the guides contained in the sticky post at the top of this section.
If you still can’t find an answer just ask here again.

Welcome to the forum.

Welcome to the forums. ;)

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I like this coin already, very nice community and support. I’m from the netherlands and hashing at nearly 1mh/s with my 7970 and 7850 :)

Also, this is the first coin i mine so bear with me if i ask stupid questions :-X
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Woah, that’s amazing! Too bad I can’t GPU Mine… Oh well, I’m working on getting mining contracts.
Welcome to the FTC Forums aatje92. We’re quite happy to have you here!

[quote name=“eiowpe” post=“41230” timestamp=“1386435973”]
Hi all, let’s all contribute to freedom even in the financial system, I think Feathecoin has a bright future ahead.
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Yes, it does!
[move]Welcome to the Feathercoin Community! We’re glad to have you here[move]![/move][/move]

[quote name=“ghoppa” post=“44078” timestamp=“1386993150”]
Sorry, the address was missing some characters, this is the right one: 6rLBykgmbM9Yz9DHPzQKJh9E43nsHCTSxX .

I will register as soon as possible on local feathercoins. What do you mean for GPU mining? Is it really not convenient at all through the client?
[/quote] Almost impossible. If you have a OpenCL supported GFX card GPU mining would be a good option. If not, then use the client :)

Well done & welcome :)

Hello :)

[quote name=“Ruthie” post=“43938” timestamp=“1386969677”]
I would like to see a caricature of Tuck too :D
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Here’s a 30 second caricature to soothe you over until I get a better one …
[img]http://24.media.tumblr.com/9001bfced2a98e62fb9428b70cab09a3/tumblr_mxrpaioeWS1rtef2wo1_500.png[/img]

;)

Edit : I’m not sure this even qualifies as a caricature. More like a stick man on drugs.

Hi there,

check out all the mining guides if your into mining. Support, has Feathercoin Wallet questions.

There’s some innovative features on the Feathercin.com web site, click on the “Your ideas for Feathercoin tab” and you can vote on ideas, or put one in.

Thanks everybody.

Hi there and welcome to our community!

To answer your questions as simply as I can:

Mining is the process of verifying transactions on the network, and in doing so, being rewarded with Feathercoins. Each new block of transactions has a puzzle that needs to be solved. This puzzle requires a lot of computer power to solve, it would be impossible to figure out by a person with a calculator in a single lifetime. The first miner to successfully solve the puzzle gets 200 coins. Their block gets added onto to the blockchain, which is like adding a new page to a ledger. Except the ledger is public, so you can always verify each transaction you’ve made.

The miners are like the bank. Or Visa/Mastercard. They process transactions and secure the network. This isn’t the best analogy, but you can think of it like that for simplicity.

Merchants on the other hand don’t need to worry so much about the technical side of things. Because mining is the part that’s dealing with the blockchain - whereas Merchants are more interested in dealing with the currency side of the system, the Feathercoins.

Right now to become a merchant that accepts Feathercoin, you have several options. One, you can use a system like CoinPayments - which simplifies the process for you, but charges a fee. You can place things on our Marketplace, and also for a small fee can have the service provide the legwork for you. Or, you can deal with each customer directly - once an order for FTC goes through, you can email them with an FTC address [you generate these in the wallet software] and ask them to send their Feathercoin there. Once you verify the payment, you can contact the buyer and ship your product out. Unlike credit cards, there is no possibility of chargebacks. So the buyer would have to trust that you have shipped out [you can do this by sending a tracking number].

Using a third-party system like CoinPayments or the Market makes the transactions a bit more secure. They can act as escrow for the sales.

Hope that was good enough!

Thanks :p , But who was so generous to give me this big amount ?!? Anyway , this gives me another reason to help the community whenever I can with whatever I can :P .

Welcome :)

I know what you mean about maybe feeling that you have missed the boat with BTC & LTC, especially regarding mining. However Feathercoin is a brilliant place to start.

One word of warning though … I am no expert but it is not recommended that you mine using a laptop. Ask some of the others in the mining section for more detailed help.

Personally I just purchase my coins. It is still fun to save up, especially while they are sooo cheap. you can spend them in the marketplace too & at an ever increasing amount of other places …

:)

Thanks, I feel like part of the family already

Thanks for the welcome fkimbe! And thanks for the info I posted an idea for a crowdfunded advertising campaign :) or even a facebook campaign where all members change their profile pics to the feathercoin logo! :)

Did you eventually find your coins?

Ahoj :)

@fkimbe I’ve already watched it but thanks anyway, I’m a subscriber to the bitcoin channel have been for quite a while now, his last epsiodes have been pretty interesting.

I was a litecoin miner for about 6 months, but when the motherboard on my miner broke I decided to sell all the equipment, so these days I’m more buying coins. Although I did mine some primecoins in their first week of launch on my laptop i5, still like primecoins too, I like that it’s different still and is ‘productive’ it’s one of the othercoin I like but I don’t see a world with only one crypto currency. But feathercoin seems like there is some cool development and comunity based decisions. Even after being attacked feathercoin is still kicking to me that shows staying power so after watching feathercoin since it’s launch I’m now a suporter.

:)

As for a separate monitor:
When I was running prime(number)-searching software on various PCs I would initially use an old small monitor to get things running, then install TeamViewer for remote access (even from my iPad).
As the GPU usage will probably be making screen refreshing crawl when mining, I suspect you will need to stop the miner, make any changes, then restart the miner to allow for prompt responses to mouse clicks etc.
TeamViewer is very simple to install and use but I did find it kept locking me out of a Ubuntu box.
:)

Thanks